Authors
Richard
Adeney • David Grierson • RJ
Hansford • Sebastian Hayes • Arnold Hinchliffe • Chris
Irven • Pam Kelly • D
Mules • Sylvia
Oldroyd • Stephen Owen • John H Pollard • Clive Russell • Catherine Simmonds et al • JC Sledge • Keith Walton • MC
Wood
Richard Adeney
Richard Adeney was born in 1920, the son of the painter Bernard Adeney.
He was principal flute with the London Philharmonic for seventeen years,
playing with all the great conductors of the time. He also appeared regularly
as a soloist, and was a member of the Melos Ensemble, the English Chamber
Orchestra and other smaller groups… Read
more
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David Grierson
David Grierson was born in 1950 in Northumberland and brought up in Greater
London. After teaching music and drama in both state and independent sectors
in the UK for more than twenty five years, he moved to northern China in
August 2000 as part of the set up team for the new British international
school in the city of Tianjin where he remained for three years… Read
more
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RJ Hansford
RJ Hansford was born in the New Forest parish of Fawley, and still lives
in the house built by his English grandfather in 1923… Read
more
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Sebastian Hayes
Sebastian Hayes (a pen-name) spent an idyllic childhood in Africa. He
was educated at Kingswood School, Bath and Wadham College, Oxford, where
he read English. Between the ages of twenty-five and forty he lived in
France, first in Paris, then in Avignon and rural Provence… Read
more
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Arnold Hinchliffe
Arnold Hinchliffe was born in 1922 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. He was
educated at Huddersfield College and Manchester University where he took
his M.A. in English Language and Literature. He served four years in the
RAF (in Egypt, India, Burma and Malaya), then travelled around in Europe
before settling down to a teaching and writing career in London… Read
more
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Chris Irven
When he was about 9, Christopher Irven became aware that the father was
head of a family. For much of the war his father, an army officer, was
away and all big decisions seemed to be taken by his mother. As the war
was ending, Christopher was taken out of an abusive preparatory school
and 18 months later the reunited family left for Kenya… Read
more
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Pam Kelly
Pam Kelly has written poetry all her life and still has little sentimental
poems written when she was a tot, and longer, surprisingly adult and insightful
poems written when she was eleven and twelve, some lines of which she occasionally
steals for her work today. As a teenager she wrote songs and comic sketches
for school productions… Read more
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Dorothy Mules née Tabb
Dorothy Tabb was the daughter of a jobbing dressmaker and seaman father
who died before he was thirty. She worked as a Primary School teacher in
a remote country school in Cornwall before accompanying her husband to
the African bush. A well known Shaftesbury personality, she only just missed
reaching a hundred and was alert up to the very moment of her death… Read
more
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Sylvia Oldroyd
Sylvia Oldroyd writes : “I cannot remember a time when I was not
fascinated by language. Born in the West Riding, I absorbed its speech
from my grandmother. My father frequently quoted the Bible and made up
humorous rhymes on the spot. A lyrical influence came from my mother’s
piano-playing…” Read more
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Stephen Owen
Stephen Owen was born near Stratford on Avon, and was educated at Warwick School. He lived and worked in the Netherlands and Italy before attending University. He has always been captivated by Poetry. Stephen Owen is also interested in positional astronomy and astrology. He is a member of the British Interplanetary Society…” Read more
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John H Pollard
Born in 1933, John Pollard's writing is based on his studies of Classics
and Law, enhanced by a lifetime's work in business and local government… Read
more
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Clive Russell
Brought up in Britain during the wartime years and beyond, I have since
travelled extensively during Army Service and in the Merchant Navy interspersed
with long periods working ashore in New Zealand & Australia.
I’ve finally retired and live quite happily in Salisbury… Read
more
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Catherine Simmonds et al
This group comprises of Catherine Simmonds, Rachel Sargent, Justin Orwin
and Keith Walton… Read more
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publications
JC Sledge
Chris Sledge was born in Leeds, the son of a University Lecturer. To
his continuing regret he was sent to Rugby School, where his only
achievement of note was to play cricket for the school at Lord’s.
He was educated at Cambridge University, where he read Economics… Read more
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Keith Walton
I was born in Morecambe. When I was two we moved to Lancaster, where
we lived over the tripe shop my mother ran. My father was greenkeeper at
a local golf club. I went to the local grammar school - another world,
that I was both drawn to and repelled by… Read
more
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MC Wood
M.C. Wood was born in Surrey in 1938 and has worked as a schoolmistress
in a wide range of schools. Before retirement she was teaching 'A'
level Art to girls… Read more
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